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FINALLY!!!! Vienna – both a City and a STATE – for example, houses 60% of it’s Citizens in social housing for about 100 years now!!! Vienna is the best example IN THE WORLD for social housing, and continues to be!!! THINK of steering Carney toward a Vienna-lite system to help address OUR housing debacle???